White People Make Everything About Race
A podcast for well meaning white folks, trying to make sense of their own racial identity.
Episodes 1-7 of season 2, “Is White Privilege a Lie?" are available now!
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If you’re white like me, at some point you’ve probably been told it’s not polite to talk about race. But have you ever really thought about race? About your own race? About what it means for you?
Welcome to a show that asks the question: what does it mean to be well meaning and white in a society that has failed to fully address racial disparities?
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White People Make Everything About Race
Season 2, Episode 8: The Five Phantoms of White Privilege; Part 5, Sense of Self
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The Fifth Phantom of While Privilege is embedded deep within us, it is baked into our Sense of Self.
Those of us who are characterized and treated as white have the privilege of not thinking about race, how it impacts those around us, and the impact is has within us.
We are afforded the luxury of seeing ourselves as individuals, not as a part of a racialized group, and this creates the mental space for us to develop and claim an individual identity, to believe deeply that we are one certain way, to see the injustices and indignities carried out by a white-dominated society but separate ourselves from them.
Not only do we not have to think about race generally, we don’t have to think about our own whiteness and how our own actions are inherently racialized.
Show Notes (listed chronologically):
The Souls of Black Folk. W.E. DuBois 1903.
All right, “color-blind” colleagues, we need to have a talk. Vu Le. Nonprofit AF. April 24, 2017. nonprofitaf.com/2017/04/all-right-color-blind-colleagues-we-need-to-have-a-talk/
Between the World and Me. Ta-Nehisi Coates. 2015. Spiegel & Grau.
The Costs of Code-Switching. Courtney L. McCluney, Kathrina Robotham, Serenity Lee, Richard Smith & Myles Durkee. Harvard Business Review. November 15, 2019. hbr.org/2019/11/the-costs-of-codeswitching
For Black parents, 'the talk' binds generations and reflects changes in America. Gustavo Solis. 2021,March 10. https://phys.org/news/2021-03-black-parents-america.html
Let’s Reconceptualize “Imposter Syndrome” for People of Color What It Means, How It Affects Our Students, and What Higher Ed Institutions Can Do About It. Cokley, Kevin. August 15, 2024. Harvard Business Publishing Education. hbsp.harvard.edu/inspiring-minds/lets-reconceptualize-imposter-syndrome-for-people-of-color
White Supremacy Culture – Still Here. Tema Okun | May 2021. whitesupremacyculture.info
From White Racist to White Anti-Racist: The Lifelong Journey. Tema Okun, dRworks. 2006.
Notes of a Native Son. James Baldwin. Beacon Press. 1955.
Requiem for a Nun. William Faulker. Random House. 1951.
Is Declining Mental Health in the U.S. a White Phenomenon? Racial Disparities in Mental Health from 1997 to 2018. IPUMS Center for Data Integration. ipums.org/sites/www.ipums.org/files/peele.pdf
Suicide by mass murder: Masculinity, aggrieved entitlement, and rampage school shootings. Rachel Kalish, Michael Kimmel. SUNY at Stony Brook, NY. Health Sociology Review (2010) 19(4): 451–464.
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. Heather McGhee. Penguin Random House. 2021.
Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society; john a. powell. Indiana University Press. 2012.
The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction 1948-1985. James Baldwin. St. Martin’s Press. 1985.
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